(1205) Stress is all that’s holding us together

A squeeze is on working people in the United Kingdom, the States and Canada. The calculus of personal pressure and hard times described in this piece from The Guardian website is certainly reproduced in the Greater Toronto Area. Such difficulty seems to be a big part of what it means to be a working person in these societies. Mentioned in this piece is the weak economics of wages for a couple with a young child in Glasgow where a call-centre job really just doesn’t cut it. The weight of this at the societal level is also discovered via this article. Recent data from a UK university is linked concluding a crap job is often much worse for your mental health than the stresses of full on unemployment.

Crazy stuff indeed. The late nineteenth century industrial economy was fuelled on coal. Our early twenty-first century digital economy is fuelled on human stress.